The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-09-29
The News i'm Brief.

An instruction exists among the
colored people of Texas.
The financial stringency is all the
talk in the North.
The yellow fever epidemic at Key
West, Florida, has ended.
Reports from the northwest indicate
that the tobacco crop is greatly in
ju1ed.
The Chicago boodlers are making
restitution, one of them has handed
over $4,000
1t is not probable that Mr.. Davis
will attend the Lee celebration in
Richmond.
The total visible supply Of cotton
for the world is 1,345,540 bales, OF
which 765,84O are American.
An incendiary fire causing loss
of s75, 900 occurred at Evansville,
Ind, Friday night.
It is charged that the negro Masons
in Louisiana take an oath to avenge
brother mason's death.
Killing frests occurred last week
in Central Illinois, northern Indiana,
Ohio and Michigan.
The failures in the United States
last week numbered 1876, as against
1873 the week previous.
Cuba has been shaking little with
earthquakes A cyclone is also in
the neighborhood.
Col. Ingersoll thinks that Mr.. Har
len, of Iowa, will be the Republican
candidate for the Presidency.
On the Goth inst. the amount of
gold coin and bullion in the Treasury
was S209677 ,S35, an increase in ten
days of $3,54O,63s.
The Virginia Prohibition party
met in conference Friday at Staun
ton, it is claimed that the third party
is in Virginia to stay.
The quarantine authorities of New
York feel confident OF their ability to
prevent any spread of the cholera
from the steamship Alesia.
1t is thought that at least one fourth
OF the tobacco crop in the Piedmont
section of Virginia is ruined by the
frost,
Cardinal Gibbons left Baltimore
yesterday for the West, for the pur-
pose of comforting the Pallium on
Archbishop Gross, of Oregon.
Grand preparations are being made
for the reception of the thousands of
old soldiers who will attend the grand
reunion at St. Louis.
Great preparations are being made
for the forthcoming yacht race, which
will decide the ownership of the Amer
ica's cup.
The Supreme court of New York
has affirmed the judgement in the case
of Jacob Sharp and he will at once be
sent to Sing Sing.
Almost the entire business portion
of Sanforn, Florida, was destroyed
by fire last week. The damage is es-
timated at three hundred thousand
dollars.
It is said Ben Eutler and Gen.
Roger A. Pryor will appear for the
Anarchists if they succeed in getting
their cases before the United States
Supreme Court.
An Industrial parade ten miles long
| anu VI SiSat eSSoilCC N<ls a. iOa1ol0 u
the blue and gray reunion at Evans
vile, Ind, Friday, which thirty five
thousand people attended.
The President issued proclamation
Monday, putting in force the treaty
lately made between the States and
Spain, in relation to discriminating
duties on tonnage.
The steamship Alesia, from Mar
settles and Naples, arrived at New
York Saturday with four cases of
Asiatic cholera on board. Eight of
her passengers died with the disease
on the trip.
| A drug clerk in Kansas plead
guilty to an Indictment containing
1880 counts, for violation of the pre-
hibition law, and WAS sentenced to
seventeen years and four months in
Jail and to fine of $20,800.
A destructive storm occurred Fri
day in Texas all along the Rio Grande
unroofng and demolishing buildings
flooding the towns and uprooting tim
beers. The extent of the damage is
not known to be very great, but can
not now be estimated.